On Mar 24, 2006, at 12:50 PM, geiger wrote:
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
Another approach is to have who ever is planning the next pd~conf
take control of the donations under the guise of whatever organization
that they are working for. I know Alexandre has talked about hosting
pd~conf at artengine in Ottawa, CA. They have non-profit status, so they
could accept donations tax-free (AFAIK). As for Brooklyn, I could do it
as part of Polytechnic University if that gives us tax-free status, or
another arts org that am affiliated with in NYC (there are a couple).I think this would be the way to go.
Then the last thing is, I don't think we are really going to get
so many donations. I've had my donate button up for years and I think I've received around US$250 in total.This might be a real problem. It would be sort of an experiment. I think it has chances to succeed, because you can be fully
transparent. Everyone knows what the money is used for, you can setup a webpage with the donations, how far away we are from the goal, etc.Maybe it can be combined with other fundings, which in this case would be donations too.
But don't know, as I said, not realy experienced in this matter.
This sounds like a workable solution that we can start doing now. Is
anyone opposed to setting up a page on puredata.org now and starting
to collect money expressly for pd~conf? We should probably make a
proposal in a new thread.
.hc
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